Today's American Minute — "No freedman
Democrats vote to disarm Blacks, "No freedman, Negro, or mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition"-Mississippi Black Code 1865 - American Minute with Bill Federer
"No freedman 1865 Democrats vote to disarm Blacks Negro or mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition"-Mississippi Black Code
Robert Cottrol, professor of law at George Washington University, stated: “Some of the earliest gun control legislation was in fact being aimed directly at black people ... After the Civil War the southern states ... Black Codes prohibited the newly freed black population from having weapons."